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Libros de Literatura histórica en inglés 23 resultados

  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    LEE HARPER
    One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tal...
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    Q. 99.00

  • THE DRESSMAKERS OF AUSCHWITZ
    THE DRESSMAKERS OF AUSCHWITZ
    LUCY ADLINGTON
    A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, c...
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    Q. 169.00

  • THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES
    THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES
    KRISTIN HARMEL
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the "epic and heart-wrenching World War II tale" (Alyson Noel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Winemaker'...
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    Q. 289.00

  • THE EVENING AND THE MORNING
    THE EVENING AND THE MORNING
    KEN FOLLETT
    u003cbu003eFrom the #1 u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e bestselling author, a thrilling and addictive new novel--a prequel to u003ciu003eThe Pillars of the Earthu003c/iu003e--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Agesu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikin...
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    Q. 259.00

  • THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    HEATHER MORRIS
    This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity. ...
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  • A COLUMN OF FIRE
    A COLUMN OF FIRE
    KEN FOLLETT
    Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald, but when the lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a violent religious conflict in 1558 England, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. Over a turbulent half-century the love between the two seems doomed. But the real enemies are not the rival religious, but those who believe in tolerance and those who do ...
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    Q. 109.00

  • THE SCARLET LETTER
    THE SCARLET LETTER
    HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
    The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by American author NathanielHawthorne and published in 1850. The story takes place in the PuritanBoston of the mid 17th century and revolves around a woman namedHester Prynne, who conceived a child out of wedlock and was forced towear a scarlet letter ?A? (Adulteress), ...
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    Q. 48.00

  • DRAGON TEETH: A NOVEL
    DRAGON TEETH: A NOVEL
    CRICHTON, MICHAEL
    Michael Crichton, the New York Times best-selling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In...
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    Q. 89.00

  • THE ANCIENT MAYA
    THE ANCIENT MAYA
    ROBERT J. SHARER / LOA P. TRAXLER
    This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence and historical studies and offers the most extensive revisions of this clas...
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    Q. 625.00

  • * WOLF HALL
    * WOLF HALL
    MANTEL, HILARY
    Wolf Hall:In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and , finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s coutiers. ...
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    Q. 109.00

  • CONVERTING WORDS: MAYA IN THE AGE OF THE CROSS
    CONVERTING WORDS: MAYA IN THE AGE OF THE CROSS
    WILLIAM HANKS
    This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary range and depth of sources, William F. Hanks documents for the first time the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of t...
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    Q. 485.00

  • POPOL VUH
    POPOL VUH
    VICTOR MONTEJO
    One of the few Maya documents to survive the Spanish conquest, the "Popol Vuh" describes the creation of the Maya universe and of humans. It tells the tale of the Hero Twins, who defeated the gods of the underworld in a ball game, and details the legendary history of the Quiche Maya rulers until their imprisonment and torture by the Spanish. Here, vivid images and captivating t...
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    Q. 175.00

  • PILLARS OF THE EARTH
    PILLARS OF THE EARTH
    FOLLETT, KEN
    The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church again...
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    Q. 115.00

  • THE CONQUEST OF THE LAST MAYA KINGDOM
    THE CONQUEST OF THE LAST MAYA KINGDOM
    GRANT D. JONES
    On March 13, 1697, Spanish troops from Yucatán attacked and occupied Nojpeten, the capital of the Maya people known as Itzas, the inhabitants of the last unconquered native New World kingdom. This political and ritual center--located on a small island in a lake in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala--was densely covered with temples, royal palaces, and thatched houses, a...
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    Q. 759.00

  • THE BRIAR CLUB
    THE BRIAR CLUB
    KATE QUINN
    Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, wh...
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    Q. 209.00

  • LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (MEDIA TIE-IN)
    LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (MEDIA TIE-IN)
    STEDMAN, M.L.
    After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel ...
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  • WORLD WITHOUT END
    WORLD WITHOUT END
    KEN FOLLETT
    #1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. World Without End is its equally irresistible sequel--set two hundred years after The Pillars of the Earth and three hundred year...
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    Q. 115.00

  • DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS
    DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS
    PIP WILLIAMS
    Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ...
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    Q. 175.00

  • WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (MOVIE TIE-IN)
    WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (MOVIE TIE-IN)
    DELIA OWENS
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 12 million copies sold, “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature” (The New York Times Book Review).For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coas...
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    Q. 125.00

  • BABEL
    BABEL
    R F KUANG
    Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out." -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of BrassFrom award-winning author R. F. Kuang co...
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    Q. 189.00

  • THE VIOLINIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    THE VIOLINIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    ELLIE MIDWOOD
    In Auschwitz, every day is a fight for survival. Alma is inmate 50381, the number tattooed on her skin in pale blue ink. She is cooped up with thousands of others, torn from loved ones, trapped in a maze of barbed wire. Every day people disappear, never to be seen again.This tragic reality couldn’t be further from Alma’s previous life. An esteemed violinist, her performances le...
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    Q. 145.00

  • THE WOMEN
    THE WOMEN
    KRISTIN HANNAH
    Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for ...
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    Q. 199.00

  • GONE WITH THE WIND (BFI FILM CLASSICS)
    GONE WITH THE WIND (BFI FILM CLASSICS)
    HELEN TAYLOR
    Gone with the Wind (1939) is one of the greatest films of all time - the best-known of Hollywood's Golden Age and a work that has, in popular imagination, defined southern American history for three-quarters of a century. Drawing on three decades of pertinent research, Helen Taylor charts the film's production history, reception and legacy. ...
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    Q. 219.00